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Books

• Adair, Douglass (1998). Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc. ISBN 0-86597-192-7.
• Adler, Bill (2003). America's Founding Fathers: Their Uncommon Wisdom and Wit. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-87833-284-7.
• Allen, Steven W. (2002). Founding Fathers: Uncommon Heroes. Mesa, Arizona: Legal Awareness Series. ISBN 1879033763.
• Bailyn, Bernard (1992) [1990]. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-73623-9.
• —— (1967). The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674-44301-3.
• —— (2003). To Begin the World Anew. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0375413774.
• Bernstein, Richard B. (2011) [2009]. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199832576.
• Bordewich, Fergus M. (2016). The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and A Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-9193-1.
• Bowman, John Stewart (2005). The Founding Fathers: The Men Behind the Nation. North Deighton, Massachusetts: World Publications Group. ISBN 1572154365.
• Ellis, Joseph J. (2000). Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0375405440.
• ——, ed. (2007). Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America. John Wiley and Sons (Encyclopedia Britannica).
• Ferling, John (2003). A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515924-0.
• —— (2002). Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513409-5.
• Fleming, Thomas J. (2010). The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers. New York: Harper. ISBN 9780061139130.
• Gibson, Alan (2006). Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1705-0.
• Graff, Henry F., ed. (2002). The Presidents: A Reference History (3rd ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31226-2.
• Kann, Mark E. (1999). The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 978-0275961121.
• Koch, Adrienne (1961). Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers: Essays in the Interpretation of the American Enlightenment. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Lefer, David (2013). The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution. New York: Sentinel. ISBN 978-1595230690.
• Lehrman, Lewis E. (2013). The American Founders. New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. ISBN 978-0984-01785-0.
• Levy, Michael I., ed. (2010). The Founding Fathers. New York: Fall River Press (Encyclopedia Britannica). ISBN 978-1435123892.
• Mackay, Charles (1885). The Founders of the American Republic: A History and Biography. London: W. Blackwood and Sons.
• Martin, James Kirby (1973). Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the coming of the American Revolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813507507.
• Middlekauff, Robert (1985). The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1950-3575-5.
• Miller, John C. (1960). The Federalist Era, 1789–1801. New York: Harper & Brothers. LCCN 60-15321.
• Morris, Richard B. (1973). Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060904548.
• —— (1965). The Peacemakers: The Great Powers & American Independence. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0930350369.
• Rakove, Jack N. (2010). Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation. London: William Heinemann. ISBN 978-0434010578.
• Read, James H. (2000). Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0-8139-1911-9.
• Roberts, Cokie (2004). Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. New York: Harper Large Print. ISBN 0060533315.
• Trees, Andrew S. (2004). The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691115528.
• Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard (1941). Founding Fathers: Men Who Shaped Our Tradition. Harper & Brothers. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• Wood, Gordon S. (1969). The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807847237.
• —— (2009). Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983246-0.
• —— (2011). The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. London, England: The Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-290-2.
• —— (2006). Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founding Fathers Different. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1594200939.
• Young, Alfred F.; Raphael, Ray; Nash, Gary B., eds. (2011). Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307-27110-5.

Journals

• The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (Culture of Manhood Chapter)
• The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864
• The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action
• Founding Fathers' Motives
• God and the Founding Fathers
• How Should We Judge Our Nation's Founders?
• Lincoln and the Founding Fathers: A Reconsideration
• Men Out of Time: Confronting History and Myth
• The Myths That Made America (Myth of the Founding Fathers Chapter)
• Natural Rights and The Founding Fathers - The Virginians
• Not Your Father's Founders: An Amended Look at America's First Patriots (2012)
• Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
• The World of the Founding Fathers

Founding Fathers: Individuals

Books

• Adams, John ♦ Adams, John (1961). Diary and Autobiography of John Adams. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• _____ ♦ Brown, Ralph A. (1975). The Presidency of John Adams. American Presidency Series. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0134-1.
• _____ ♦ Diggins, John P. (2003). Schlesinger, Arthur M. (ed.). John Adams. The American Presidents. New York, New York: Time Books. ISBN 0-8050-6937-2.
• _____ ♦ Ferling, John (1996). John Adams, A Life. New York: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 978-0805045765.
• _____ ♦ McCullough, David G. (2001). John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0743218290.
• Adams, Samuel ♦ Alexander, John K. (2002). Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742521148.
• _____ ♦ Stoll, Ira (2008). Samuel Adams: A Life. New York: Simon & Shuster: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-9911-4.
• Allen, Ethan ♦ McWilliams, J. (June 1976). "The Faces of Ethan Allen: 1760–1860". The New England Quarterly. 49 (2): 257–282. doi:10.2307/364502. JSTOR 364502.
• Baldwin, Abraham ♦ Coulter, E. Merton (1987). Abraham Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father. Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press. ISBN 0-918339-06-5.
• Carroll, Charles ♦ Carroll, Charles (1902). Unpublished Letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and of his Father, Charles Carroll of Doughoregan. New York: United States Catholic Historical Society.
• _____ ♦ Lomask, Milton (1959). Charles Carroll and The American Revolution. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons.
• Carter, Robert ♦ Levy, Andrew (2005). The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0375508653.
• Dickinson, John ♦ Flower, Milton Embick (1983). John Dickinson, Conservative Revolutionary. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 081390966X.
• Franklin, Benjamin ♦ Franklin, Benjamin (1895) [1790]. Henry Altemus (ed.). Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with His Essays and Will. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co.
• _____ ♦ Franklin, Benjamin (1967) [1790]. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• _____ ♦ Brands, H. W. (2000). The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385495400.
• _____ ♦ Isaacson, Walter (2004). Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684807614.
• Gerry, Elbridge ♦ Billias, George Athan (1976). Elbridge Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-005269-7.
• Hamilton, Alexander ♦ Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-0143034759.
• Hancock, John ♦ Fowler, William M. (1980). The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395276195.
• Henry, Patrick ♦ Campbell, Norine Dickson (1969). Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman. New York: Devin-Adair Co. ISBN 978-0815965015.
• _____ ♦ Kidd, Thomas S. (2011). Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465009282.
• Hutchinson, Thomas ♦ —— (1974) [1st published]. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-64160-4.
• Jefferson, Thomas ♦ Onuf, Peter S. (2007). The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, Chapter:'Jefferson's Religion: Priestcraft, Enlightenment and the Republican Revolution. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0813926117.
• _____ ♦ Cogliano, Francis D. (2006). Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0813927336.
• _____ ♦ McDonald, Forrest (1976). The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0330-5.
• _____ ♦ Meacham, Jon (2012). Thomas Jefferson. Random House. ISBN 978-0307990877.
• Jefferson, Thomas and Alexander Hamilton ♦ Ferling, John (2014). Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1608195435.
• Johnson, William Samuel ♦ Ross, Betsy McCaughey (1980). From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04506-9.
• Knox, Henry ♦ Puls, Mark (2008). Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1403984272.
• Livingston, Robert R. ♦ Dangerfield, George (1960). Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746–1813. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
• Madison, James ♦ Brant, Irving (1970). The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison (1st ed.). Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
• _____ ♦ Broadwater, Jeff (2012). James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of a Nation. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3530-2.
• _____ ♦ Cheney, Lynne V. (2014). James Madison: A Life Reconsidered. New York: Viking Penguin. ISBN 978-0670-02519-0.
• _____ ♦ Feldman, Noah (2017). The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-9275-5.
• _____ ♦ Ketcham, Ralph (1990) [1971]. James Madison: A Biography (paperback ed.). Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1265-3.
• _____ ♦ Labunski, Richard E. (2006). James Madison and The Struggle for the Bill of Rights. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199740994.
• _____ ♦ Rutland, Robert Allen (1997). James Madison: The Founding Father. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1141-5.
• _____ ♦ Stewart, David O. (2015). Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1451688597.
• _____ ♦ Wills, Garry (2002). James Madison. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6905-1.
• Marshall, John ♦ Unger, Harlow G. (2014). John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation. Boston, Massachusetts: De Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306-82220-9.
• Mason, George ♦ Mason, George (1970). Rutland, Robert A. (ed.). The Papers of George Mason, 1725–1792. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1134-4.
• Monroe, James ♦ Unger, Harlow (2009). James Monroe: The Last Founding Father. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306818080.
• Morris, Gouverneur ♦ Brookhiser, Richard (2004). Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0743-25602-5.
• Paine, Thomas ♦ Braff, David (2009). Joyce Chumbley (ed.). Forgotten Founding Father: The Impact of Thomas Paine; In Search of the Common Good. Spokesman Books.
• _____ ♦ Nelson, Craig (2006). Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0434010578.
• _____ ♦ "Founding Father Thomas Paine: He Genuinely Abhorred Slavery". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (48): 45. 2005. JSTOR 25073236.
• Randolph, Edmund ♦ Reardon, John J. (1975). Edmund Randolph: A Biography. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0026012003.
• Rush, Benjamin ♦ Riedman, Sarah Regal; Green, Clarence Corloon (1964) [1st published]. Benjamin Rush: Physician, Patriot, Founding Father. New York: Abelard-Schuman.
• Warren, Joseph ♦ Cary, John Henry (1961). Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriot. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Washington, George ♦ Alden, John R. (1996). George Washington: A Biography. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1153-8.
• _____ ♦ Brookhiser, Richard (1996). Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Simon & Schuster: The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-82291-1.
• _____ ♦ Chernow, Ron (2010). Washington: A Life. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594202667.
• _____ ♦ Ferling, John (2009). The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-465-0.
• _____ ♦ Furstenberg, François (2006). In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy: Slavery and the Making of a Nation. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1594200922. OCLC 66527258.
• _____ ♦ O'Brien, Michael Joseph (1937). Hercules Mulligan, confidential correspondent of General Washington. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons.
• _____ ♦ Schecter, Barnet (2010). George Washington's America. A Biography Through His Maps. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-1748-1.
• Webster, Noah ♦ Kendall, Joshua C. (2010). The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture. G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 978-1101486542.
• Willing, Thomas ♦ Wright, R. E. (Autumn 1996). "Thomas Willing (1731–1821): Philadelphia Financier and Forgotten Founding Father". Pennsylvania History. 63 (4): 525–560. JSTOR 27773931.
• Wilson, James ♦ Seed, Geoffrey (1978). James Wilson. Millwood, NY: KTO Press. ISBN 978-0527810504.
• _____ ♦ Smith, Charles Page (1956). James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742–1798. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Journals

• Franklin, Benjamin, Postmaster ♦ Benjamin Franklin, Postmaster General, July 26, 1775 to November 1776
• Humphreys, Charles ♦ Charles Humphreys
• Randolph, Edmund ♦ Randolph
• Washington, George, Commander in Chief ♦ George Washington's Commission as Commander in Chief
• Wilson, James ♦ The Lost Founder: James Wilson in American Memory

Continental Congress

Books

• Ammerman, David (1974). In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813905259.
• Bickford, Charlene Bangs; Bowling, Kenneth R. (1989). Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789–1791. Madison, WI: Madison House. ISBN 9780945612148.
• Burnett, Edmund Cody (1941). The Continental Congress. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Congress, United States (1800). Journals of Congress: Containing Their Proceedings from September 5, 1774, to January 1, 1776. Philadelphia: Folwell's Press.
• Jillson, Calvin C.; Wilson, Rick K. (1994). Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774–1789. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804722933.
• Rakove, Jack N. (1979). The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-394-42370-4.

Papers

• The Continental Congress
• The First Session of the Second Continental Congress
• Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers: Portrait of the First Continental Congress
• First Continental Congress and Problem of American Rights
• Journals and Papers of the Continental Congress
• Rights and Grievances at Carpenters' Hall September 5 - October 26,1774

Revolutionary War

Books

• Andrilk, Todd (2012). Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1402269677.
• Boston City Council (1925). Celebration of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925. Boston: Boston City Council.
• Ferling, John (2007). Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199758470.
• McCullough, David G. (2006). 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743226712.
• Quarles, Benjamin (1961). The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, NX: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807846031.
• Renehan, Edward (2007). The Treaty of Paris: The Precursor to a New Nation. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1438104300.

Papers

• Creation of American National Identity: 1774-1796
• Debunking the Myth of the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
• Disputed Authorship of the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775
• Freemasons and the American Revolution
• Revolutionary War: The Home Front
• War and the Imperative of Union

Road to Revolution

Books

• Ammerman, David (1974). In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813905259.
• Archer, Richard (2010). As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195382471.
• Carp, Benjamin L. (2010). Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & The Making of America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300117059.
• Ferling, John E. (2003). A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-515924-1.
• Jensen, Merrill (1968). The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763–1776. New York: Oxford University Press.
• King George III (1867). The correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783. London: John Murray.
• Phillips, Kevin (2012). 1775: A Good Year for Revolution. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0670025121.
• Scaife, Lauriston L. (1921). Milton and the Suffolk resolves. Milton Historical Society.

Papers

• The Colonies Move Toward Open Rebellion, 1773-1774
• The Articles of Association
• American Colonial Committees of Correspondence: Encountering Oppression, Exploring Unity, and Exchanging Visions of the Future
• The Committees of Safety and the Coming of the American Revolution in North Carolina, 1774-1776
• The Virginia County Committees of Safety, 1774-1776
• Social Origins of the American Revolution
• The South Carolina and Continental Associations: Prelude to Revolution
• Tea That Survived the Boston Tea Party

Declaration of Independence

Books

• Becker, Carl Lotus (1922). The Declaration of independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.
• Boyd, Julian P. (1945). The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text as Shown in Facsimiles of Various Drafts by its Author, Thomas Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Joseph J., Ellis (2013). Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-70122-0.
• Friedenwald, Herbert (1904). The Declaration of Independence: An Interpretation and an Analysis. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Maier, Pauline (1998). American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0307791955.
• Tsesis, Alexander (2012). For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-37969-1.
• Wills, Garry (1978). Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-08976-7.

Papers

• The Authentication of the Engrossed Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Declaration of Independence: The Mystery of the Lost Original
• Declaring, Drafting, and Composing American Independence
• Decision in '76: Reflections on the 56 Signers
• Signers of the Declaration (book)
• Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence (1866)

Articles of Confederation

Books

• Callahan, Kerry P. (2003). The Articles of Confederation: A Primary Source Investigation Into the Document That Preceded the U.S. Constitution. New York: Rosen Primary Source. ISBN 978-0823937998.
• Jensen, Merrill (1950). The New Nation 1781-1789. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Papers

• Articles of Confederation as Background to Federal Republic
• Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
• Background of the Articles of Confederation
• The Confederation Period and the American Historian
• Founders on the Defects of the Articles of Confederation, 1780-1787
• Legacy of the Articles of Confederation
• Our First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation

U.S. Constitution

Further information: Bibliography of the United States Constitution

Books

• Ackerman, Bruce (1991). We the People. Vol. I. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-6749-4841-9.
• —— (1991). We the People. Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-6740-0397-2.
• —— (2005). The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy. Cambridge,MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01866-4.
• Ackerman, Erin (2011). A Guide to the United States Constitution. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-3939-1288-3.
• Adams, Willi Paul (1980). The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1388-5.
• Adler, Mortimer & Gorman, William (1975). The American Testament: for the Institute for Philosophical Research and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. New York: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-34060-5.
• Agresto, John (1984). The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press=. ISBN 978-1-5017-12906.
• Amar, Akhil Reed (2005). America's Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6262-4.
• Anastaplo, George (1989) [1986]. The Constitution of 1787 : a commentary. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-36060.
• Anderson, Thornton (1993). Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-2710-0913-1.
• Bailyn, Bernard, ed. (1993). The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle for Ratification. Vol. Part One: September 1787 to February 1788. The Library of America. ISBN 0-940450-42-9.
• ——, ed. (1993). The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle for Ratification. Vol. Part Two: January to August 1788. The Library of America. ISBN 0-940450-64-X.
• Bancroft, George (1882). History of the formation of the Constitution of the United States of America. Vol. I. New York, D. Appleton and company.
• —— (1882). History of the formation of the Constitution of the United States of America. Vol. II. New York, D. Appleton and company.
• Barlow, J. Jackson; Levy, Leonard Williams (1988). The American Founding: Essays on the Formation of the Constitution. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313256103.
• Beard, Charles A. (1912). The Supreme court and the Constitution. New York, The Macmillan company.
• —— (1914). An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• —— (1948). The Enduring Federalist. Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Beeman, Richard (2009). Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6570-7.
• Bennett, Walter Hartwell (1983). American Theories of Federalism. University of Alabama Press.
• Benson, Lee (1960). Turner and Beard: American Historical Writing Reconsidered. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
• Benton, Wilbourn E., ed. (1986). Drafting the U.S. Constitution. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-8909-6217-6.
• Berkin, Carol (2002). A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution. Orlando, FL: Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100948-1.
• Bernstein, Richard B. (1993). Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It?. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0715-3.
• —— (1987). Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674044753.
• Billias, George (2009). American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9107-3.
• Bloom, Sol (1986). The story of the Constitution. Washington, DC : National Archives and Record Administration. ISBN 0-911333-45-2.
• Bowditch, William Ingersoll (1855). The United States Constitution. (publisher not listed).
• Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1966). Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-3161-0398-5.
• Brant, Irving (1965). The Bill of rights; its origin and meaning. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill.
• Brown, Robert E. (1956). Charles Beard and the Constitution: A Critical Analysis of an Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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• —— (1979). The Bill of Rights and What It Means Today. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
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• —— (2015). The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0385-35340-3.
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• Farrand, Max (1921). The Fathers of the Constitution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• —— (1913). The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Fausold, Martin L.; Shank, Alan (1991). The Constitution and the American presidency. Albany : State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0467-6.
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• ——; Sullivan, James; Winthrop, James (1892). Essays on the Constitution of the United States. Brooklyn, N.Y., Historical printing club.
• Ford, Worthington C. (1904). Journals of the Continental Congress. Vol. 31 volumes. Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Frankfurter, Felix (1930). The public & its government. New Haven, Yale University Press.
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• Gerston, Larry N. (2007), American Federalism: A Concise Introduction, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharp, ISBN 978-0-7656-1671-5
• Goodwin, Liu; Karlan, Pamela S.; Schroeder, Christopher (2009). Keeping faith with the Constitution. Washington, D.C. : American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. ISBN 978-0-9823-8390-2.
• Gribin, Anthony V. (2003). Constitution of the United States: Background, Analysis and Bibliography. Nova Science Publications Inc. ISBN 978-1-5903-33198.
• Hagemann, Frances L (1987). Study guide for the United States Constitution. Evanston, Ill. : McDougal, Littell. ISBN 978-0-8660-9298-2.
• Hastings, Lyon. The Constitution and the Men Who Made It: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, 1787. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Henkin, Louis (1966). Foreign affairs and the United States Constitution. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1982-6098-1.
• Hennessey, Jonathan (2009). The United States Constitution. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-1-7218-5266-6.
• Hockett, Homer C. (1939). The Constitutional History Of The United States 1826-1876. The Macmillan Company.
• Hood, Silas (1911). United States Constitution and socialism. Milwaukee : Social-Democratic Publishing Co.
• Jensen, Merrill (1950). The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• ——; Kaminski, John P; Saladino, Gaspare J. (1976). The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787. Vol. 1. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
• Jillson, Calvin C. (2016). American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change (8 ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-78366-9.
• —— (1988). Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787. New York: Agathon Press. ISBN 0-87586-081-8.
• Kaminski, John P.; Leffler, Richard (1991). Creating the Constitution: A History in Documents. Center for the Study of the American Constitution.
• Kammen, Michael G (1986). A machine that would go of itself : the Constitution in American culture. New York : Knopf. ISBN 978-1-1385-18391.
• Keenan, Joseph T. (1988). The Constitution of the United States : an unfolding story. Chicago, Ill. : Dorsey Press. ISBN 978-0-5341-0627-0.
• Kenyon, Cecelia Marie (1963). "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" After Fifty Years. (No publisher listed).
• Ketcham, Ralph, ed. (1986). The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. New York: Mentor (Penguin Publishing Group).
• Klarman, Michael J. (2016). The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1908-6596-2.
• Kohn, Hans (1960). the idea of nationalism. The MacMillan Company.
• Kyvig, David E. (1996). Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0792-7.
• Larson, Edward J.; Winship, Michael P. (2005). The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison. New York: The Modern Library. ISBN 0-8129-7517-0.
• Levinson, Sanford (2006). Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-530751-8.
• Levy, Leonard W.; Mahoney, Dennis J., eds. (1987). The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution. New York: Macmillan; London. ISBN 9780029187906.
• Levy, Leonard W.; Karst, Kenneth L., eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• ——; ——, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• ——; ——, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• ——; ——, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• ——; ——, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 5. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• ——; ——, eds. (2000). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 6. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-864880-3.
• Lomask, Milton (1980). The spirit of 1787 : the making of our Constitution. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 978-0-4497-02628.
• Lynd, Staughton (1967). Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 978-0-5211-1484-4.
• Maier, Pauline (2010). Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684868547.
• Main, Jackson Turner Authorlink=Jackson Turner Main (1961). The Antifederalists : critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788. University of North Carolina Press.
• —— (1973). Political parties before the Constitution. University of North Carolina Press.
• Maltz, Earl M. (1990). Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-04678.
• Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr. (1991). America's Constitutional Soul. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-4114-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• McDonald, Forrest (1979) [1965]. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund. ISBN 0-9139-6658-4.
• —— (1985). Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0311-4.
• —— (1958). We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• McGuire, Robert A. (2003). To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513970-4.
• McLaughlin, Andrew C. (1905). The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789. New York: Harper & Brothers.
• —— (1935). A Constitutional History of the United States. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• McManus, Edgar J; Helfman, Tara (2014). Liberty and Union : a constitutional history of the United States. New York : Routledge. ISBN 978-1-1367-5660-3.
• McPhillips, Martin (1985). The Constitutional Convention. Morristown, N.J. : Silver Burdett. ISBN 978-0-3820-9435-4.
• Mead, Walter B. (1987). The United States Constitution: personalities, principles, and issues. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0872495205.
• Meese, Edwin III (2005). The Heritage Guide to the Constitution. Washington, DC : Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-5969-8001-3.
• Mitchell, Broadus; Mitchell, Louise Pearson (1975). A Biography of the Constitution of the United States: Its Origin, Formation, Adoption, Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1950-1932-6.
• Moehn, Heather (2003). The U.S. Constitution: A Primary Source Investigation Into the Fundamental Law of the United States. The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8239-3804-9.
• Morgan, Edmund Sears (1956). The birth of the Republic, 1763-89. University of Chicago Press.
• Morris, Richard B. (1987). The Forging of the Union. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-0609-1424-0.
• Morton, Joseph (2006). Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-3133-3021-6.
• Nardulli, Peter F. (1992). The Constitution and American political development : an institutional perspective. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-2520-6174-5.
• Nevins, Allan (1924). The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Odesser-Torpey, Marilyn (2013). Insiders' Guide to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Morris Book Publishing, LLC.
• Padover, Saul K.; Landynski, Jacob W. (1995). The Living U.S. Constitution (3rd rev. ed.). New York: Meridian. ISBN 978-0452011472.
• —— (1962). To Secure These Blessings: The Great Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Washington Square Press.
• Palumbo, Arthur E. (2009). The Authentic Constitution: An Originalist View of America's Legacy. Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8758-6707-6.
• Paulsen, Michael Stokes; Calabresi, Stephen G.; McConnell, Michael W.; Bray, Samuel L. (2013). The Constitution of the United States. St. Paul, MN : Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1-5877-8880-2. Case studies and essays involving Constitutional law. (1659 pages)
• Perry, Richard L. (1959). Sources of Our Liberties: Documentary Origins of Individual Liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Chicago: American Bar Foundation.
• Peterson, Helen Stone (1974). The making of the United States Constitution. Champaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8116-6509-4.
• Price Hossell, Karen (2004). The United States Constitution. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library. ISBN 978-1-4034-3434-0.
• Pritchett, C. Herman (1959). The American Constitution. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Qing Yu, Li (1988). "Dr. Sun Yat Sen and the U.S. Constitution". In Starr, Joseph Barton (ed.). The United States Constitution: Its Birth, Growth, and Influence in Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-201-3.
• Rakove, Jack N. (1996). Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57858-9.
• Rossiter, Clinton (1964). Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
• —— (1987) [1st published 1966]. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-30404-6.
• Rutland, Robert Allen (1983). The Ordeal of the Constitution: The Antifederalists and the Ratification Struggle of 1787-1788. Boston: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-0930-35051-2.
• Schultz, David Andrew (2009). Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution. Vol. I. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 978-0-8160-6763-3.
• —— (2009). Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution. Vol. II. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 978-0-8160-6763-3.
• Schuyler, Robert Livingston (1923). The Constitution of the United States; an historical survey of its formation. New York, The Macmillan Company.
• Schwartz, Bernard (1963). The Reins of Power: A Constitutional History of the United States. New York: Hill and Wang.
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• Shepard, E. Lee, comp. (1988). 'Reluctant Ratifiers: Virginia Considers the Federal Constitution. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society. ISBN 0-945015-01-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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• Sonneborn, Liz (2013). The United States Constitution. Chicago : Heinemann Library. ISBN 978-1-4329-6752-9.
• Stewart, David O. (2007). The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8692-3.
• Tribe, Laurence H. (1991). On reading the Constitution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-6746-36262.
• Van Cleve, George (2017). We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-2264-8050-3.
• Van Doren, Carl (1948). The great rehearsal : the story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. New York : Viking Press.
• Vile, John R. (1997). A companion to the United States Constitution and its amendments. Westport, Conn. : Praeger. ISBN 978-0-2759-8932-3.
• Warren, Charles (1928). The Making of the Constitution. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
• Whittington, Keith E. (1999). Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0969-5.
• Wood, Gordon S. (1979). The Confederation and the Constitution: The Critical Issues. Washington, DC: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0819-10821-0.
• —— (1969). The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4723-7.
• —— (2011). The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. The Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-290-2.
• —— (1987). The Making of the Constitution. Baylor University Press. ISBN 978-0-9189-54497.
• Wright, Benjamin Fletcher (1938). The Contract Clause Of The Constitution. Harvard university Press.
• Yates, Robert; Lansing, John; Martin, Luther (1821). Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia, in the Year 1787: For the Purpose of Forming the United States of America. Albany,NY: Websters and Skinners.

Papers

• "America's Constitution" and the Yale School of Constitutional Interpretation
• American Constitutionalism and the War for Independence
• American Constitutional Exceptionalism Revisited
• The Anti-Federalists' Toughest Challenge: Paper Money, Debt Relief, and the Ratification of the Constitution
• Articles and the Constitution: Similar in Nature, Different in Design
• The Authority of the Framers of the Constitution: Can Originalist Interpretation Be Justified?
• Coalitional Instability and the Three-Fifths Compromise
• The Compromise of 1787
• Compromises of the Constitution
• The Constitution: How Did It Happen?
• Constitutional Agreement during the Drafting of the Constitution: A New Interpretation
• The Critical Role of Committees at the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Early Drafts of the U.S. Constitution
• Founding Fathers & Bill of Rights Adoption
• The Great Compromise: Ideas, Interests, and the Politics of Constitution Making
• The Idea of a National Government During the American Revolution
• James Madison and the Constitution: Reassessing the "Madison Problem"
• Meet the Framers of the Constitution
• Mythologizing the U.S. Constitution
• Narrative, Interpretation, and the Ratification of the Constitution
• Natural Law and the United States Constitution
• On Turner, Beard and Slavery
• Our Bickering Founding Fathers and Their Messy, Flawed, Divinely Inspired Constitution
• Reason and Compromise in the Establishment of the Federal Constitution, 1787-1801
• Republicanism and Slavery: Origins of the Three-Fifths Clause in the United States Constitution
• The Significance of Signatures: Why the Framers Signed the Constitution and What They Meant by Doing So
• Why Did the Founding Fathers Write the Constitution?

Web resources

• The Founders Constitution, University of Chicago Press
• Founders Online, National Archives

Federalist Papers

Book

• Epstein, David F. (1984). The Political Theory of the Federalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-21299-8.

Papers

• Full Text of The Federalist Papers
• Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers
• Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers: Part II
• Separating Hyperplanes and the Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers

Slavery

Books

• Allain, Jean, ed. (2012). The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199660468.
• Bell, Derrick (2008). And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-7867-2269-3.
• Belz, Herman (1978). Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Bergman, Peter M. (1969). The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York: Harper and Row.
• Blackmon, Douglas A. (March 25, 2008). Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0385-50625-0.
• Cramer, Clayton E. (1997). Black Demographic Data, 1790–1860: A Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0313-30243-5.
• Davis, David Brion (1999) [1st published 1975]. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512671-8.
• Du Bois, W.E.B. (1935). Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880'. New York: Russell & Russell.
• Duberman, Martin B., ed. (1965). The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Finkelman, Paul (1996). Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-1563-24590-9.
• Foner, Eric (2010). The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393066180. Preview.
• —— (1990). A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060-96431-3.
• Franklin, John Hope (1974). From Slavery to Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-07-021907-9.
• Goldstone, Lawrence (2011). Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865–1903. Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0802-71792-4.
• Goldwin, Robert A.; Kaufman, Art, eds. (1988). Slavery and Its Consequences: The Constitution, Equality, and Race. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. ISBN 0-8447-3650-3.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2005). Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0743-27075-5.
• Kachun, Mitch (2003). Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915. Preview.
• Kaminski, John P., ed. (1995). A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution. Madison, WI: Madison House. ISBN 978-0945-61216-2.
• Lincoln, Abraham (2009). Gates, Henry Lewis, Jr. (ed.). Lincoln on Race & Slavery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691-14234-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Liston, Robert A. (1970). Slavery in America: The History of Slavery. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Maltz, Earl M. (2009). Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700-61666-4.
• McPherson, James M. (1988). Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195-03863-7. Preview.
• Novak, Daniel A. (1978). The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor after Slavery. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-81-311371-7.
• Painter, Nell Irvin (2006). Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513756-6.
• Richards, Leonard L. (2015). Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment. Excerpt. Emphasis on the role of Congressman James Ashley.
• Robinson, Donald L. (1970). Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-182972-1.
• Samito, Christian G., Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015) xii, 171 pp.
• Smith, Mark M. (1997). Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807-82344-6.
• Thorpe, Francis Newton (1901). The Constitutional History of the United States, vol. 3: 1861–1895. Chicago.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Trelease, Allen W. (1971). White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row.
• Tsesis, Alexander (2004). The Thirteenth Amendment and American freedom: a legal history. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814782760.
• Vicino, Thomas J.; Hanlon, Bernadette (2014). Global Migration The Basics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134-69687-1.
• Vorenberg, Michael (2001). Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1139-42800-2. Preview.
• Waldstreicher, David (2009). Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0809-09453-0.
• Wright, William D. (2002). Critical Reflections on Black History. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. p. 125. ISBN 978-0275-97443-5.
• Wills, Garry (2003). Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0618-34398-0.

Papers

• Beyond Metaphor: Battered Women, Involuntary Servitude and the Thirteenth Amendment
• Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law, and the Thirteenth Amendment
• Founding Fathers and Slaveholders
• The Founding Fathers and Slavery
• Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights
• The Lawfulness of the Reconstruction Amendments
• Lincoln and the "Necessity" of Tolerating Slavery before the Civil War
• On Turner, Beard and Slavery
• The Origin of Slavery in the United States—The Maryland Precedent
• The Scope of Congress's Thirteenth Amendment Enforcement Power After City of Boerne v. Flores
• Slavery and Race: An Essay on New Ideas and Enduring Shibboleths in the Interpretation of the American Constitutional System
• Slavery in America
• Slavery, Settlement, and Empire: The Expansion and Growth of Slavery, 1770-1820
• Sleeping Giant?: Section Two of the Thirteenth Amendment, Hate Crimes Legislation, and Academia's Favorite New Vehicle for the Expansion of Federal Power
• Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865–1866
• The Thirteenth Amendment and Slavery in the Global Economy
• The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins of Civil Rights
• Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Consummation to Abolition and Key to the Fourteenth Amendment

Religion

Books

• Frazer, Gregg L. (2012). The religious beliefs of America's founders : Reason, Revelation, and Revolution. Lawrence, Kansas. : University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1845-3.
• Gelfand, Ravina (1969). The freedom of religion in America. Minneapolis, Lerner Publications Co. ISBN 978-0822502197.
• Heimert, Alan (1966). Religion and The American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674755505.
• Holmes, David (2006). The Faiths of the Founding Fathers. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kowalski, Gary A. (2008). Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers. New York: BlueBridge. ISBN 978-1-933346-09-0.
• Lambert, Franklin T. (2003). The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (published 2006). ISBN 978-0691126029.
• Novak, Michael; Novak, Jana (2007). Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and The Father of Our Country. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-05126-7.
• Schwartz, Laurens R. (1987). Jews and the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and Others. McFarland. ISBN 978-0899502205.

Papers

• Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (review)
• Green, Steven K. (2015). Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding. Oxford University Press.
• Harris, Matthew; Kidd, Thomas, eds. (2012). The founding fathers and the debate over religion in revolutionary America: a history in documents. (Oxford University Press.

Miscellaneous

Books

• Deetz, James F. (1996). In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385080316.
• Elkins, Stanley M.; McKitrick, Eric (1995) [1993]. The Age of Federalism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195093810.
• Freeman, Joanne B. (2001) [1st published]. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300088779.
• Goodall, Jane (2013). Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1455513215.
• Grafton, Anthony (1990). Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691191836.
• Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1855). The Republican Court, or, American Society in the Days of Washington. D. Appleton & Co.
• Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. (1904–1918). The American Nation: A History. Vol. I. New York: Harper & Bros.
• Jillson, Calvin C. (2016) [2009]. American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change (8th ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317666790.
• Labaree, Leonard Woods (1948). Conservatism in Early American History. New York: New York University.
• MacDonald, William, ed. (1899). Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606–1775. New York: Macmillan Co.
• Onuf, Peter S. (1983). The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-7889-5.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1957). The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Atheneum.
• Varg, Paul A. (1963). Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers. Michigan State University Press.
• Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber. Penguin. p. 75. ISBN 978-0143037224.

Papers

• American Revolution and the Post-Revolutionary Generation of American Historians
• Myths of the American Revolution (Smithsonian)
• A Short History of the United Empire Loyalists